Moved drive to USB Port on Time Capsule and TM no longer sees backups

I moved my FireWire attached HD from a direct attachment to my Mac Pro to attached via the USB port on my Time Capsule. Time Machine now wants to start over, and does not see the previous backups.
The destination drive name did not change, other than the added NAS address.
Is there a way to force TM to use the previous backup set incrementally instead of starting over?
Thx

SRJaynes wrote:
I moved my FireWire attached HD from a direct attachment to my Mac Pro to attached via the USB port on my Time Capsule.
unfortunately, it's not that simple. TM treats backups to directly attached drives differently vs. networked ones.
see this for more information and possible solutions: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/18.html
JGG

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